A '''static site generator''' is a program that takes content, webpage design templates and configuration files and based on them generates a directory tree of [HTML] and other files that represent a website. The resulting website is static in the sense that it does not require [CGI] or other server-side scripts to serve its content and could as well be distributed as a [ZIP] file with no HTTP server at all. The content that a static site generator processes into HTML is usually marked up with a lightweight [markup language] like [Markdown]. One popular modern example of a static site generator would be [http://jekyllrb.com/%|%Jekyll]. It is written in [Ruby]. **Known static site generators written in Tcl** %| Name | License and availability |% &| [giggle] | Open source (BSD license) (?) |& &| [MajaMaja] | Free for non-commercial use |& &| [Orb Spinner] | Commercial, no longer available |& &| [tclog] | Open source (3-clause BSD license) |& &| [Tclssg] | Open source (MIT license) |& **Discussion** [dbohdan] 2014-06-16: I'm working to replace an ad hoc shell script static site generator with Tcl code. Are there any others written in Tcl? [JM] see: http://www.scarpaz.com/MajaMaja/index.html [escargo] 2014-06-20: Once upon a time, there was [Orb Spinner]. Its domain has lapsed and been acquired by somebody else. The Internet Archive has a captured version from late 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20061205031222/http://orbspinner.com/ I also use a Ruby site generator called webgen: http://webgen.gettalong.org/ [dbohdan] 2014-06-26: I've packaged mine as an open source project: [Tclssg]. It already has about all the functionality I wanted it to have but the documentation is not quite there yet. [dbohdan] 2014-07-16: The documentation has rather improved since. [dbohdan] 2014-07-19: Added [tclog] and restructured this page. Tclog has had a Tcler's Wiki article since forever (2003) but dates from before the term "static site generator" was in common use. **See also** * [HTML generator] * [Template and Macro processing] * [CMS] * A list of [http://staticsitegenerators.net/%|%static site generators] <>CMS | Internet | Web